Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Studying Lacan's Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Studying Lacan’s Seminar VII offers a contemporary, critically informed set of analyses of Lacan’s ethics seminar and astute reflections about what Lacan’s ethics offers to the field of... (more)
A Lacanian Conception of Populism: Society Does Not Exist
A Lacanian Conception of Populism takes issue with traditional theories of populism, which seek to equate populism with hegemony, arguing that these are not only different but even incompatible... (more)
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis addresses key questions about the history and transmission of Lacan’s work in North America through discussions with experienced... (more)
Jacques Lacan: The Basics
Jacques Lacan: The Basics provides a clear and succinct introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century.
Lacan’s ideas are applied in the study of the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2nd Revised Edition)
This distinctively interdisciplinary book draws upon psychoanalytic theory to explore how expectations, desires and fears of documentary subjects and filmmakers are engaged, and the ethical issues... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction sees Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot and Uri Hadar provide an original approach to the elaborate and complex world of Jacques Lacan, one of psychoanalysis’s... (more)
The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Conversation about Living in Joy
The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis observes different aspects of life – childhood, romantic love, sex, death, and human suffering – through a Lacanian lens, with a glance toward a Buddhist point... (more)
Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Perspective on Identity, Language and Queer Theory
Offering a concise yet comprehensive introduction to gender theory, this thought-provoking new book aims to make an intervention into the contemporary American paradigm of thinking gender and... (more)
...or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIX
"A chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella. The impossible face-off between a whale and a polar bear. One was devised by Lautréamont; the other punctuated by Freud. Both are memorable. Why... (more)
Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought: Reflections on Buddhism in Lacan's Seminar X and Beyond
Lacan and Chan Buddhist Thought provides a close reading of how Lacan mobilizes concepts from Chan Buddhist philosophy, culture, and practice in his later teachings.
The book emerged from the... (more)
Lacan on Depression and Melancholia
Lacan on Depression and Melancholia. considers how clinical, cultural, and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited to properly facilitate psychoanalytical clinical... (more)
What Can We Know About Sex?: A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender
Despite the progress made by psychoanalysis since Freud’s discovery of the sexual nature of the unconscious, analysts have tended to explore psychical causality independently of the role of the... (more)
Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s)
Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s) explores philosophical and psychoanalytic theories, as well as artworks, that show sensible bodily rituals for... (more)
Lacan in the End Times: In the Name of the Absent Father
This book explores themes around the Father, His absence in modern society and the decline of mental health. The nature of this decline can be uniquely psychoanalytically theorised, in both the... (more)
Lacanian Fantasy: The Image, Language and Uncertainty
Lacanian Fantasy addresses the question of how fantasy developed as a psychological concept, particularly as influenced by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.
Kirk Turner moves thematically, from... (more)
Lacan: A Genealogy
Lacan: A Genealogy provides a genealogical account of Lacan's work as a whole, from his early writings on paranoid psychosis to his later work on the real and surplus enjoyment. Beistegui argues that... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Politics, Oppression and Resistance: Lacanian Perspectives
This innovative text addresses the lack of literature regarding intersectional approaches to psychoanalysis, underscoring the importance of thinking through race, class, and gender within... (more)
The Marx Through Lacan Vocabulary: A Compass for Libidinal and Political Economies
This text explores a set of key concepts in Marxist theory as developed and read by Lacan, demonstrating links and connections between Marxist thought and Lacanian practice.
The book examines... (more)
Reading Lacan's Écrits: From 'Logical Time' to 'Response to Jean Hyppolite'
Reading Lacan’s Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan’s Écrits to be published in English. This third volume provides an indispensable companion piece to... (more)
Toward a Feminist Lacanian Left: Psychoanalytic Theory and Intersectional Politics
While traditional feminist readings on antagonism have pivoted around the sole axis of sex and/or gender, a broader and intersectional approach to antagonism is much needed; this book offers an... (more)
Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice
The highly arcane wisdom produced by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is either endlessly regurgitated and recited as holy writ by his numerous acolytes, or radically dismissed as unpalatable... (more)
Paradoxes in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
This book explores the nature of paradoxes in Lacanian psychoanalysis, how they can be approached in treatment and how they can be resolved.
Building on Freud’s and Lacan’s own work in resolving... (more)
Dolls, Photography and the Late Lacan: Doubles Beyond the Uncanny
In this fascinating new book, Rosalinda Quintieri addresses some of the key questions of visual theory concerning our unending fascination with simulacra by evaluating the recent return of the... (more)
The Jouissance Principle: Kant, Sade and Lacan on the Ethical Functioning of the Unconscious
This book examines the concept of jouissance, a Lacanian term that refers to enjoyment experienced in different ways, from the enjoyment taken in an action that is ethically disapproved to the hidden... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in Dialogue
This book vigorously engages Lacan with a spiritual tradition that has yet to be thoroughly addressed within psychoanalytic literature-the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition.
The book... (more)
Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Of Unconscious Grammatology
This book explores the place of the flesh in the linguistically-inflected categories of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, drawing explicit attention to the organic as an inherent part of the... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Practice: Insights from Fourteen Psychoanalysts
In this book, fourteen Lacanian psychoanalysts from Italy and France present how they listen and understand clinical questions, and how they operate in session. More than a theoretical 'introduction... (more)
Lacan, Mortality, Life and Language: Clinical and Cultural Explorations
This work presents thoughts on the Lacanian subject: What are we as a speaking being? What makes us a human subject from a psychoanalytic perspective? Is it feelings and affect that make us a human?... (more)
Lacan and Other Heresies: Lacanian Psychoanalytic Writings
This volume gathers together the recent writings of the analysts and members of the Freudian School of Melbourne and the Belgian analyst Christian Fierens, displaying the ongoing interrogation by the... (more)
Schizostructuralism: Divisions in Structure, Surface, Temporality, Class
Schizostructuralism draws together insights from psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxist theory, and the divisions and antagonisms that both underpin and distinguish them, to form a new... (more)